It's all fun and games until someone calls out anime fans. This time on Minus World, we talk about game distributors' increasing control over "what is and isn't a game", the mundane activities we'd like to see become games and why it's okay to walk away from the challenge of Dark Souls.

We talk about Rust gender locking, the Powerpuff Girls reboot falling flat on its face and the GTA-like Rockstar legal battle about to pop off. Video games are still happening at an alarming rate, and we're here to discuss what we can do about that.

Timestamps:

0:00 Intro, all lies

5:00 News - unearthed Neo-Geo prototype, game archiving convo

13:20 - Punch-Out! Easter egg

15:15 - Possible new Xbox One model outed by NeoGAF

18:44 - Rust randomly assigns players a gender based on SteamID

27:05 - Rockstar legal battle

32:13 - Dark Souls 3 PC crashes and the hilarious ways to "fix" them

38:25 - Yo-Kai Watch 3 coming in Sushi and Tempura versions to Japan in July

48:09 - Powerpuff Girls reboot has transphobic new episode

59:07 - Animal Crossing's 15th anniversary!

1:04:04 - Dark Souls 3 mistakenly listed on Mexican Steam for less than a dollar

1:05:46 - Link to the Past and Super Metroid available on New 3DS eShop today

Yet another expensive VR headset is out, and it's difficult for any of us to see why we would purchase it at this point. We also discuss some difficult community firestorm regarding a trans character in the world of Baldur's Gate, and finally, our opinions on game difficulty.Should people be told to "git gud"? Is "gamer cred" a useful currency? Find out, on Minus World.

It's a full house as Connie Sims and Sergio Kossio from Midboss join your usual cast of Mello, Matt, Toni and JJ. We discuss the best boss battles, the worst Street Fighter character designs and, everyone, please stop playing Miitomo during the podcast, please?

Editor's note: Bloodborne plot spoilers appear around 51:15 and all Bloodborne talk is over by 58:20.

New producer 2 Mello joins us on the 4th episode of Minus World's third season. News from Sony, Namco and MGSV, games from Yoshi's Wooly World to Crypt of the Necrodancer, and one wild hotel room microphone situation. Hey, 2 Mello will fix it.

Timestamps:

Intro and 2 Mello introduced 0:20

Thanksgiving/Black Friday talk 3:52

News:

MGSV nuclear disarmament metagame 8:12

PS4's 7th processing core unlocked 14:38

Namco's patent on loading screen minigames expired 18:25

Dragon dating sim "Angels with Scaly Wings 23:05

PS4 streaming to PC soon 26:57

What games have we been playing?:Nintendo Badge Arcade and Yoshi's Wooly World with JJ 30:10

Flywrench with 2 Mello 40:04

Crypt of the Necrodancer with Matt 42:54

Heroes of the Storm with Toni 45:05

Read Only Memories at Playstation Experience, GaymerX3 coming up and goodbyes at 49:28